Health + Wellness

Cincinnati takes an innovative approach to getting fit. The city is home to the leading wellness website Sparkpeople and health initiatives like Go Vibrant, designed to get downtown workers moving during the work day. And through its Empowering Communities Strategy, Interact for Health, a catalyst for health and wellness, awards Thriving Community grants to help organizations in the Cincinnati region transform their neighborhoods to support well-being and make healthy choices easy and affordable. Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky are also blessed with extensive urban park systems with miles of hiking, biking and blading trails that helped us earn a top ranking in Outside Magazine. And with self-help centers like Main Street's Yoga Row and the rise of locally sourced foods and restaurants, you'll find plenty of ways to stay healthy here.

Health + Wellness Features

Because of strong community partnerships that result in events like speed mentoring and with lots of opportunities for experiential learning, Hughes STEM High School students are a step closer to bright futures.

Here are 15 big ideas for Greater Cincinnati in 2015 that, if achieved, will accelerate the region's forward momentum. They're certainly doable given the winds of change moving Cincinnati in the right direction.

In this two-part series, we look at the women behind some of the Greater Cincinnati area's most beloved blogs. This week, we focus on blogs that cover local food, drinks, to-dos and general musings about urban living. If you're not reading the words of these witty and wise women, you're missing out!

Health + Wellness Videos

Just in time for the holidays, Findlay Market has published a new cookbook that includes profiles of the farmers and vendors that make up the Findlay community, along with recipes that come from both the sellers and Cincinnati's top chefs. Catch a sneak peek!

This Cincinnati Children's lip dub video of Flo Rida's "Good Feeling" has been making its rounds on the web, but we wanted to continue to spread the good vibes this holiday season. Cincinnati is blessed to have such a world-class facility in our city, and this video celebrates the people behind it.